Results for prefix

Definitions of prefix:

part of speech: verb transitive

To place before, or at the beginning of, anything.

part of speech: noun

A letter, syllable, or group of syllables placed at the beginning of a word to change its meaning.

part of speech: noun

A letter, syllable, or word fixed or put at the beginning of another word.

part of speech: verb

To put or place at the beginning of something else; to settle.

part of speech: verb transitive

To fix or put before, or at the beginning.

Usage examples for prefix:

• Only the young girl habitually used the formal prefix in return for the " Miss Phoebe" that he called her. "Susy, A Story of the Plains", Bret Harte

• Martens conjectures that the designation salangane comes from langayah, bird, and the Malay prefix sa, and signifies especially the nest as something coming from the bird. "The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes", Tomás de Comyn Fedor Jagor Rudolf Ludwig Carl Virchow Charles Wilkes

• The grandmother's name was Elspeth, the grand- daughter's had therefore always the prefix "Donal Grant", George MacDonald

• It is the regular prefix in Icelandic, Danish, Swedish, and Feroic. "The English Language", Robert Gordon Latham